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12.01.10
New Video Games Spur User-Generated Creativity
Videogames like Electronic Arts’ CREATE, Spore and The Sims 3, along with Sony’s LittleBigPlanet franchise and Nintendo’s Wii Music, have been fostering user-generated creativity. Nintendo has a new game that opens up gamers’ creativity, Art Academy for Nintendo DS. A new survey conducted by Wakefield Research for Nintendo indicates that 81 percent of adults wish they were more creative. While making time for creative pursuits can be difficult for working adults and students alike, Nintendo’s new game offers a solution.
04.27.10
Big Games of 2010: The Sims 3 Goes Console

The biggest PC game of 2009 is now heading to consoles this fall. The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts is developing the critically-acclaimed The Sims 3 is in development for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and Nintendo DS.  Millions embraced the launch of The Sims 3 on the PC/Mac last summer making it the biggest PC launch in EA’s history and going on to become to the #1 best-selling PC title in 2009. The groundbreaking The Sims franchise has continued to gain momentum, remaining a worldwide cultural touchstone for its enormous and growing fan base.

02.09.10
Electronic Arts' The Sims Turn Ten

It was ten years ago that Will Wright unleashed The Sims on gamers in February 2000. What started out as an architectural project for the acclaimed game creator exploded into the bestselling game franchise of all time. The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts has produced three core games – The Sims, The Sims 2, and The Sims 3 – supported by dozens of expansion and stuff packs with lifetime unit sales eclipsing 125 million worldwide. As the bestselling PC game in nearly every major videogame market worldwide, The Sims has continuously reset the bar over the past decade delivering new content, gameplay elements, platform support, and partnerships that resonate with its global fan base in meaningful ways and take the play experience to new levels of fun and entertainment.

01.17.10
The Top 10 Bestselling Games of 2009 in the U.S.

According to The NPD Group, PC games in the U.S. took a huge hit at retail in 2009. PC games accounted for just $538 million last year, which was down 23 percent from 2008. In contrast, console game sales in 2009 were only down eight percent. One caveat, these sales do not include digital download revenue from services like Steam.com, BigDownLoad.com and IGN.com. The below games were the best of the crop when it comes to sales in the U.S.

01.10.10
CES 2010: Palm Pre Gets 3D Games from EA, Gameloft

LAS VEGAS – With Apple dominating the portable games space thanks to its App Store and thousands of videogames, Palm used CES 2010 to go virtual. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Palm showed off 3D games for its Palm webOS platform. Palm has partnered with leading mobile game developers like EA Mobile, Gameloft, Glu Mobile, and Laminar Research to bring the first batch of games to its Palm Pre customers. Demonstrated at Palm's CES event, the games are now available in the Palm App Catalog for Palm Pre customers.

09.09.09
Bang Camaro's Morgan Brown Talks Videogames and The Sims 3

Morgan Brown, one of Bang Camaro’s 10 to 20 lead singers, loves his videogames. But he loves his adoring female fans more. The heavy metal band that hails from Boston has a new record, Bang Camaro II, and a new deal with Electronic Arts‘ music label, Artwerk Music, which means even more exposure in videogames. The band’s new song, “Revolution,” is featured in The Sims 3.

While gamers might not be familiar with the band’s name, they’ve definitely heard their music in both Rock Band and Guitar Hero, as well as the PC game Titan Quest. And anyone who’s seen the band perform in a dingy rock club will remember them for both their music and their size. They take up the stage, literally, with 10 to 20 singers for every live show. Brown talks about the past, present and future of rock’s role in videogames, and why he won’t be playing Activision’s DJ Hero, in this exclusive interview.